MUSANYA SECONDARY SCHOOL
UACE – MATHS TEST II
Topic: Statistics
3 Hours
Instructions: Attempt ALL
1. Given the information in the table below;
x 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
f 4 2 6 3 7 2 1 2 2
Find the;
(a) Mean value
(b) Median value (05 marks)
2. Given the following values,
(i) 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Find the interquartile range (02 marks)
(ii) 2,8,6,7,8,1,3,4,5,6,8,9,3,4. Find the semi-interquartile range (03 marks)
3. The table below shows the marks obtained by a group of students in a chemistry test.
Marks Number of
students
10 – ¿20 4
20 – ¿30 6
30 – ¿40 12
40 – ¿50 8
50 – ¿60 7
60 – ¿70 3
70 – ¿80 8
80 – ¿90 7
90 – ¿100 5
Find;
(i) Modal mark
(ii) Median mark (05 marks)
4. The table shows the marks obtained by a group of students in a maths test.
Classes 20 – 29 30 – 34 35 – 44 45 – 64 65 – 74 75 – 84
Frequenc 5 5 12 20 10 10
y
Calculate the modal mark (05 marks)
5. The distribution of lengths of time of a large number of telephone calls made from an office in
a given week was such that the median was 100 seconds and the 80th percentile was 190 seconds.
Estimate the;
(a) Upper quartile (02 marks)
(b) Number of calls out of 500 that lasted less than a minute (03 marks)
6. Given the information in the table below;
Class Frequency
10 – 19 6
20 – 24 4
25 – 29 8
30 – 39 10
40 – 54 12
55 – 64 7
65 – 69 3
Draw an Ogive and use it estimate the;
(i) 4th decile
(ii) 70th and 90th percentile range (05 marks)
7. Given the information in the table below;
Classes f
1.0 – 1.9 3
2.0 – 2.9 7
3.0 – 3.9 8
4.0 – 4.9 2
5.0 – 5.9 15
6.0 – 6.9 5
7.0 – 7.9 6
8.0 – 8.9 4
Find the:
(i) Mean value using assumed mean of 4.45
(ii) Standard deviation (05 marks)
8. The table shows the marks obtained by 30 students in a chemistry test marked out of 10
Score (x) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Frequency (f) 2 2 3 2 3 4 5 2 1 3 3
Find the mean value using a working mean of 5. (05 marks)
9. Given the scores below:
7 8 6 8 9 10 6 4 5 6 4
4 6 8 7 10 8 6 11 12 8
(a) Form a frequency distribution table of ungrouped data
(b) Find the standard deviation
(c) Find the semi – interquartile range (12 marks)
10. Below are wages of 40 workers of a certain factory in thousands of shillings per day.
2.0 2.1 2.0 2.2 6.4 2.6 3.0 3.5
3.1 3.2 2.3 2.7 2.8 3.4 4.0 3.2
3.7 4.5 5.0 5.4 4.9 6.0 6.4 6.3
5.4 4.7 4.6 4.9 6.2 6.2 6.7 2.5
2.6 2.9 4.4 5.3 3.6 4.8 6.3 5.0
(a) Form a frequency distribution table with intervals of 0.5 thousands (500) shillings for the
above data (04 marks)
(b) Calculate the:
(i) Mean
(ii) Standard deviation
(iii) Modal wage
(iv) Median wage (08 marks)
[Link] the information in the table below,
Marks Number of students
(%)
20 – 29 6
30 – 39 4
40 – 49 12
50 – 59 8
60 – 69 5
70 – 79 5
Using the knowledge of linear interpolation, find the;
(i) Median mark
(ii) Interquartile range
(iii) 6th decile
(iv) 80th percentile
(v) Number of students who scored below 40%
(vi) Number of students who scored below 46%
(vii) Number of students who scored above 46% (12 marks)
12 (a) A survey was conducted to establish the performance of a certain school in terms of
academics. A test was given to a group of students and a sample of 20 students gave the
following results.
12 13 11 10 14 16 17 18 19 20
11 12 13 16 17 18 19 16 14 21
Find the unbiased estimate of the population mean and standard deviation of the population from
which the sample was drawn. (07 marks)
(b) The Y.Y buses make journeys from Kampala to Mbale daily. A researcher recorded the
number of minutes x to the nearest minute; buses are late according to the schedule being used.
From a random sample of 50 journeys, the following times were summarized.
E(x) = 738 and ∑ x 2=¿ ¿ 16526
Find the unbiased estimate of the mean and variance of the population from which the sample
was drawn. (05 marks)
13. The ages of people in Kampala were as follows;
Age (years) Number (‘000)
0 – ¿5 4.4
5 – ¿15 8.1
15 – ¿30 10.5
30 – ¿50 14.6
50 – ¿70 9.8
70 – ¿90 4.7
(a) Draw a histogram for the data,
(i) use it to find the modal age interval
(ii) on it superimpose a frequency polygon (06 marks)
(b) Draw an ogive and use it to find the
(i) median age
(ii) number of people under 18 years (06 marks)
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